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Morphing Aircraft Based on Smart Materials and Structures Review Article Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures 1–24 Morphing aircraft based on smart Ó The Author(s) 2016 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav materials and structures: A DOI: 10.1177/1045389X16629569 state-of-the-art review jim.sagepub.com Jian Sun1, Qinghua Guan1, Yanju Liu2 and Jinsong Leng1 Abstract A traditional aircraft is optimized for only one or two flight conditions, not for the entire flight envelope. In contrast, the wings of a bird can be reshaped to provide optimal performance at all flight conditions. Any change in an aircraft’s config- uration, in particular the wings, affects the aerodynamic performance, and optimal configurations can be obtained for each flight condition. Morphing technologies offer aerodynamic benefits for an aircraft over a wide range of flight condi- tions. The advantages of a morphing aircraft are based on an assumption that the additional weight of the morphing com- ponents is acceptable. Traditional mechanical and hydraulic systems are not considered good choices for morphing aircraft. ‘‘Smart’’ materials and structures have the advantages of high energy density, ease of control, variable stiffness, and the ability to tolerate large amounts of strain. These characteristics offer researchers and designers new possibilities for designing morphing aircraft. In this article, recent developments in the application of smart materials and structures to morphing aircraft are reviewed. Specifically, four categories of applications are discussed: actuators, sensors, control- lers, and structures. Keywords smart materials and structures, morphing aircraft, review Introduction morphing wings can play a very important role in air- craft design (Cistone, 2004; Weiss, 2003). The kite, which might be considered the earliest type of A number of aircraft with morphing wings have aircraft, was invented by the Chinese 2000 years ago. been designed and produced since World War II, These kites were made from easily obtained natural including the X5 (sweep wing, USA, 1951–1958), the materials: silk fabric or paper for the wings, fine, high- F-111 (sweep wing, USA, 1964–2010), the XB-70 (span tensile-strength silk for the tether, and bamboo for a bending wing, USA, 1964–1969), the SU-17 (sweep strong, lightweight airframe. The first rocket was devel- wing, former Soviet Union, 1966-till date), the MIG-23 oped in the 13th century in China using black powder (sweep wing, former Soviet Union, 1967-till date), the as the propellant. The rocket was the first powered air- SU-24 (sweep wing, former Soviet Union, 1967-till craft used in war and was the forerunner of the jet date), the Tu-22M (sweep wing, former Soviet Union, engine. The Wright brothers completed the first flight 1969-till date), the F-14 (sweep wing, USA, 1970– of a powered, manned aircraft (the Wright Flyer)on17 2006), the B-1 (sweep wing, USA, 1974-till date), the December 1903. The 274 kg aircraft had two 12.3 m Tornado (sweep wing, UK, Germany, and Italy, 1974- wings and was powered by an 8.9 kW, 82 kg engine. till date), and the Tu-160 (sweep wing, former Soviet The Wright Flyer stimulated the rapid development of aircraft in the 20th century. 1 To improve aerodynamic performance, the use of Centre for Composite Materials and Structures, Science Park of Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), Harbin, People’s Republic of China bionics in aircraft design is being considered. Swifts 2Department of Astronautical Science and Mechanics, Harbin Institute of control their glide performance by changing the geome- Technology (HIT), Harbin, People’s Republic of China try of their wings; for example, they adjust their wing sweep to suit the speed (Lentink et al., 2007). Jackdaws Corresponding author: (Rose´n and Hedenstrom, 2001) and other birds Jinsong Leng, Centre for Composite Materials and Structures, Science ¨ Park of Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), P.O. Box 3011, No. 2 (Thomas, 1996) maneuver in flight by changing the YiKuang Street, Harbin 150080, People’s Republic of China. geometry of their wings and tail. It follows that Email: [email protected] Downloaded from jim.sagepub.com at Harbin Inst. of Technology on April 6, 2016 2 Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures Union, 1981-till date) (Barbarino et al., 2011a). The electrorheological and magnetorheological fluids, shape most famous example is the Grumman F-14 Tomcat. memory alloys, shape memory polymers, electro-active This aircraft, which was featured in the film ‘‘The Final polymers, and multifunctional nano-composites can be Countdown,’’ was in service with the US Navy from considered smart materials (Sater and Crowe, 2000; 1974 to 2006. The wing structure was made of titanium, Vessonen, 2002). Smart structures include auxetic hon- including the wing box, the wing pivots, and the wing eycombs, variable-stiffness tubes, multi-stable struc- skins. The F-14’s wing sweep could be varied between tures, and corrugated structures. In general, smart 20° and 68° in flight to obtain the optimum lift-to-drag materials and structures comprise a smart system. To ratio for the Mach number. This aircraft was retired by draw an analogy to humans, as shown in Figure 1, the US Navy on 22 September 2006. The main reasons smart materials and structures can obtain information given for the F-14’s retirement were the high number of from the environment around the skin (sensing), they maintenance hours and the high costs resulting from then produce an internal chemical or physical effect the heavy and complex sweep wing structure. delivered to the brain for decision making (control), To overcome the problems with traditional materi- and finally, they implement actions through the mus- als and structures, novel materials are required cles (actuation). The information passes through the (Donadon and Iannucci, 2014; Lloyd, 2007). Smart nerves, and each part is linked by tendons and fibrous materials and structures, which offer self-actuating, bands (structures). self-sensing, self-healing, self-assembly, and self- Smart materials and structures have one or more of adaptive capabilities, have great potential for applica- the three main features as follows: tions in morphing aircraft (Rodriguez, 2007; Simpson et al., 1998). A variety of morphing technologies 1. Self-actuating—the system produces an output based on smart materials and structures will be such as force, displacement, heat, and light after requiredtoenableanaircrafttoperformin-flight being stimulated (Chung, 2004; Kang et al., configuration changes for optimum performance 2006; Krstulovic-Opara et al., 2003; Song et al., (Colozza, 2007; NASA, 2001; Website). 2011b). 2. Self-sensing—in response to changes in the envi- Smart materials and structures ronment, the system can generate electric or magnetic signals or undergo strain that can be It is difficult to define ‘‘smart’’ materials. Unlike static, measured to describe the environment or ‘‘dead,’’ materials, smart materials are ‘‘alive’’: they (Kruusama¨e et al., 2011; Moslehi et al., 2011; can respond to changes in the environment (Bhavsar Sodano et al., 2004). et al., 2008; Tzou et al., 2004). Therefore, smart materi- 3. Self-adaptive—the system can change its geome- als are not only structural materials but also active try to adapt to the environment (this feature materials. Sources of stimulation include stress, strain, applies specifically to structures) (Rodrigues electricity, magnetism, heat, light, and microwave et al., 2010; Vos et al., 2011a, 2011b). radiation (Bogue, 2012). Currently, piezoelectric, mag- netostrictive, and ferroelectric materials, optical fibers, Figure 1. Smart materials and structures. Downloaded from jim.sagepub.com at Harbin Inst. of Technology on April 6, 2016 Sun et al. 3 Table 1. Properties of typical smart materials. Density Nominal stress Strain Actuation Stimulation frequency Unit or method g/cm3 MPa % SEMT Shape memory alloy (SMA) (Hartl and Lagoudas, 6.4–6.5 400–700 8 Slow 2007; Nespoli et al., 2010; Wei and Sandstro¨m, 1998) Piezoelectric ceramic (Craig, 1996; MEMSnet, 7.5–7.8 100 0.1 Fast 2014; Website) Piezoelectric composites (Bent and Pizzochero, 3.79 34–41 1.5 Fast 2000; Smart Material Corp., 2014; Website) Shape memory polymer (SMP) (Leng et al., 2011; 0.92 2–10 50–100 Slow Liu et al., 2009, 2014) Elastic-active polymer (EAP) (Bar-Cohen, 2002; 1–2.5 10–30 300 Fast Shahinpoor et al., 1998) Magnetostriction (Bar-Cohen, 2000) 9.2 100 2 Fast Electrorheological fluids (ER) (Hao, 2001) . 0.016 N/A Fast Magnetorheological fluids (MR) (Kciuk and 3–4 0.05–0.1 N/A Fast Turczyn, 2006; Park et al., 2010) Here, ‘‘S’’ denotes nominal stress and strain, ‘‘E’’ denotes electric, ‘‘M’’ denotes magnetic, and ‘‘T’’ denotes temperature. Table 1 presents the properties and the means of sti- and low speeds, which can reduce fuel consumption mulation for various common smart materials. and improve the flight envelope dramatically. Aircraft Generally, smart materials have a high energy density with variable-chord or variable-camber wings can have (Tieck et al., 2004). According to the requirements of a shorter takeoff distances. Variable-span wings, flexible particular application (e.g. stress, strain, weight, speed), winglets, and twisting wings can improve the aerody- designers can select the best material. namic performance of low-speed aircraft. Different levels of morphing require diverse types of materials and structures to meet its various demands. Morphing aircraft Some of the earliest research on smart materials and The basic principle of an airplane can be described as structures for morphing aircraft mainly focused on follows: gravity is overcome by the lift generated by the medium morphing, such as the research conducted by flow of air over the aircraft’s wings, and the lift depends the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Spangler, on the wing shape and size and the velocity of the air- 1989). In that research, a helicopter rotor blade craft.
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